No time for a longer flashback today, but with the New York Times moving much content back behind a paywall in January, now is probably a good time to search for any of those comics articles you’d like to see before the change. I was amused to find an interview with me from September 1996, … Read more
A brief flashback today on a title that had a brief run: Gene Roddenberry’s Xander in Lost Universe, a part of the Tekno-Comix line from 1995. A part of Big Entertainment, Tekno-Comix was a short-lived attempt to build series around the names and concepts of celebrities ranging from Leonard Nimoy to John Jakes. It … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added two magazines to our Title Spotlight section this week, but apart from their physical sizes and the fact that there are comics inside, they don’t have a thing in common but the staples. Warren Publishing released the first issue of Vampirella in 1969. Like its sister … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt Within a year or so of Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown getting their own title in 1958, DC Comics introduced several new teams of non-super-powered adventurers: Cave Carson, Rip Hunter, and the Sea Devils. The latter two got their own titles in the early ’60s, though neither … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt This week’s Title Spotlight is shining on DC Comics’ Metal Men series from the ’60s. The Metal Men were created for a last-minute filler feature in Showcase #37-40 in 1962, and the characters proved popular enough for DC to give them their own bimonthly series the following year. … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added several new titles to the Title Spotlights section today, and we’re hoping to make some regular updates to the section in the future. This week we added circulation statements for a number of titles for Marvel Comics’ 2099 imprint from the 1990s. The imprint re-imagined the … Read more